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3 Obras 157 Miembros 51 Reseñas

Obras de Jeff Backhaus

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Conocimiento común

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male

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A wonderful fast-paced story of confusion, loss, grief and, ultimately, resolution. Very enjoyable!
 
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ChetBowers | 50 reseñas más. | Mar 10, 2021 |
Brilliantly written, this touching novel really held me captive. It's beautiful prose and elegant pacing has outdone many other novels I've read in the past few years. The characters were perfect (though one was a little too messed up for my taste), and you really felt their hardships and emotions. And the heart-breaking ending brought me to tears......and yet I am ever so happy I gave this novel a chance.
Highly recommended, 5 stars. A really wonderful novel.
 
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stephanie_M | 50 reseñas más. | Apr 30, 2020 |
Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing.
Hikikomori, n. literally pulling inward; refers to those who withdraw from society.

Some novelists can shrink the world down to a very small place and still create a rich, detailed, and often beautiful universe. This is the story of a young American father, Thomas, and his wife, Silke. When their small son was killed in a tragic accident, Thomas cannot forgive himself and becomes ‘hikikomori’ - a complete recluse who has withdrawn into his room and away from human interaction. After several years, Silke is desperate when Thomas will literally do no more than occasionally speak through his locked door. She makes one last, extreme effort to draw Thomas out by hiring Megumi, a young Japanese immigrant. Megumi acts as a ‘rental sister’, a special sort of female outreach counselor who patiently leads Thomas back from his seclusion.

The novel is unique and nuanced and written with complete control and lyricism and depth of feeling. How does Silke feel to lose her husband within their own home? How does Megumi feel to be a rental sister with her own personal losses and sacrifices? And Thomas… the author allows us into Thomas’s mind and heart, an experience of overwhelming guilt but leading to hope and finally back to love…but with Silke or with Megumi?

Hikikomori and the Rental Sister is not a long story but many of the best novels are not. The publisher created a perfect, beautiful, small volume and within, Jeff Backhaus’s debut is memorable and distinctive. His readers will be patiently awaiting his next.
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KatyBee | 50 reseñas más. | Apr 18, 2020 |
This book was well written, and able to hold my attention, but as someone else said it was more of a grown man's fantasy woman than a hikikomori and a "secret sister". I'm not shocked by the sex or anything like that, I just thought it would be more like a geisha situation instead of basically a prostitute. I didn't hate the book, but it definitely isn't a favorite.
 
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KnivesBoone | 50 reseñas más. | Jul 29, 2016 |

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Obras
3
Miembros
157
Popularidad
#133,743
Valoración
½ 3.6
Reseñas
51
ISBNs
8

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